force when they say a man opened fire on them. a maryland community is cleaning up after sunday's quick-moving storms that caused a new round of damage. >> no plastic and metal. >> a young north carolina girl turns a life-threatening injury into an investment into the lives of girls around the world. "good morning washington" continues right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good morning to you washington. it is 6:00, this monday, july 9. i'm cynne simpson. >> i'm natasha barrett in for steve today. we will check in with lisa baden and a second but first, here is adam. >> the belfort furniture weather center, 6:00 sharp, and it is a damp start today. widespread showers and storms over night. right now the bulk of the action

is here crossing over 95 from springfield to sell all the way down to fredericksburg. all of it is moving to the eastin to southern maryland. and still ongoing showers and storms northwest of town. most of the rain will be in the morning and then some breaks around lunchtime with a few storms possible this after an evening especially south of washington. but cooler, though. >> " -- george washington parkway is closed at spout run all traffic as the detour at the memorial bridge. >> the latest developments in an officer-involved shooting that happened in mount vernon. we are hearing that two fairfax county police officers used deadly force after they say a man started shooting at them. jummy olabanji joins us live where it all happened. good morning. >> fairfax county police still

remain here on the scene at hours after the shooting. you can see the active investigation. what police say it was sunday night just before 11:30 p.m. when two officers were it in this area of mount vernon when they spotted two suspects that look suspicious. we are told the police approached the two suspects and tried to talk to them when one of the suspects began to run away from police. two officers then began chasing the suspect and one that caught up with him, there was an altercation. >> during the altercation, it appears the suspect is played a handgun and fired shots towards the officers. one of our officers returned fire, striking the suspect. >> when the suspect was taken to -- the suspect was taken to mount vernon hospital, where he later died. we are not told get out many times he may have been shot or who -- or who the suspect is.

police remained on the scene collecting evidence and the waiting for the sun to come up and they are continuing investigating. the two officers involved were not injured. >> some quick moving storm sunday causing extensive damage. one area hit really hard is fredericksburg, virginia. brianne carter has the very latest. >> we are awful fleming street in this area was hardest hit when the storms made their way through yesterday. there is a roof on top of the house, and that comes from this building right over here. there were cheerleaders and sighed when the storm made their way through. >> a frightening day inside the dance studio. >> we were praying to god that we were not going to die. >> the roof ripped off of the walls caved in as the summer story -- storm swept through the area. as the windows blew out, the

teachers ordered all the cheerleaders practicing inside to the front of the building. >> ms. haqqani was trying to take up the window and she started -- she saw the final until everybody to get in the dance room. >> the top of the building flu a few hundred feet, landing on this home, where thankfully no one was home. the damage and disbelief down the street to the store mall where -- she started as bad restore two years ago. >> i cannot tell you what we are feeling. i drove up and said that this is a dream, it cannot be real. we are still in a state of shock. >> that seems to be the reaction of a number of people down here watching it all happen. some people down here speculated as to whether or not it was the tornado that made its way down the street, causing the damage. some others said perhaps it was just high winds that came in very fast and fears. we do understand that inside of

the dance studio there were two parents helping out with the students who were injured, according to reports that were taken to the hospital. there are a lot of questions out here and the clean-up begins. brianne carter, abc 7 news. >> all the destruction unbelievable. thank you for the report. local power companies had just gotten of last customers without are up and running in last week's storm. dominion virginia had 28,000 customers without power. they now have the number down to 3700 in northern virginia. pepco has 331 and bge has over 700 customers still without >> encouraging news for drivers this morning. three lanes of eastbound route 50 are back open again. there were closed just a between exit 11 and 13 in the of bowie area because of heat-literate buckling. the lanes were expected to remain closed through this morning's rush hour but crews

were able to get the repairs done sooner than expected. thank you, everyone. and good news for metro commuters who use the green line. both tracks are back in service this morning meaning, you can expect a normal commute at least there. metro officials believe that he caused friday after the boss a partial the relevant and could george's county. crews will be worked all weekend to prepare a 1000-foot section damaged track. this morning investigators are trying to find out who shot a teenager in southeast d.c. at happened early this morning. the 2700 block of wade wrote. the 17-year-old boy was shot in the leg, the side, and the back. he was taken to the hospital and is expected to be ok. police are trying to figure out what exactly led up to the shooting. d.c. police also investigating a double stabbing in columbia heights which happened on the 3600 block of 14th street nw. still no word there on the conditions of the victims. investigators have not released

any information on possible suspects either. >> a hot topic today on the campaign trail as republican presidential hopeful mitt romney's personal finances. democrats want him to explain some of sure accounts and release several years of tax returns. this is in light of questions about his personal wealth, which could exceed $250 million. the romney campaign has dismissed the tactic as an unfounded character assault. we will have more on the latest campaign battle coming up in the next half hour. 6:07 as 71 degrees outside. several thousand people may be having trouble connecting to the internet this morning. >> could be catastrophic. after the break -- who you can call if you did not heed

>> i am chris and serving fresh agreed yogurt for breakfast. good morning, washington -- fresh greek yogurt. >> good morning to you. so glad you are joining us. tens of thousands of americans could lose their internet service today because of a computer virus. the fbi says international hackers unleashed a virus a year ago and time bid to take effect today. if your computer is not functioning properly, a customer support line would be your best solution. for more information you can log on to our website wjla.com. >> could be a bad day for a lot of people. we live on those things. >> want to get a check of traffic and weather.

>> it has been about an hour, a tree came down george washington parkway northbound near spout run. all traffic has been forced to detour across the memorial bridge. we have an accident with a light pole down on 95 virginia. south down near the truck weigh station. two to the right get by a northbound traffic looks okay coming out of fredericksburg. traffic upstream heading out of newington and springfield, the headlights. but as hear what adam caskey has to say now. >> lots of light rain, moving west to east all across the region very heavy showers overnight -- actually two -- over two inches of rain have been recorded on the weatherbug. notice the showers moving west to east, widespread rain up and down 95, especially south of the beltway. with 50, getting a break of more showers are moving away. still moderate to heavy rain in frederick county, especially the southern part.

daily showers and thunderstorms chances all week long with an unsettled weather pattern but on -- much cooler but highs and 80's this week. notice in your travel forecasts down across the entire nation. chicago, 86, santa fe, 83, new orleans, 89, kansas city, 91. good amount of sunshine in the upper midwest. storm chances, though, across the southern tier. oklahoma city, 91, a chance of storms, 93 engines of storms in dallas. -- 93 enchants of storms in dallas. >> coming up next, a tragedy on their love that the eastern shore. three children drowned in a creek. >> still ahead how two nor ms. the sisters are turning and life sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheering sfx: sounds of marchching band and crowd cheering so, i'm walking down the street, x: sounds of marching band ancrowd cheering just you know walking, sfx: sounds of marching band and crowd cheeeering and i found myself in the middle of this parade honoring

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>> authorities are waiting on all types of reports the three boys found dead in a creek on maryland's eastern shore. police in federalsburg say it appears the boys drowned and no foul play was involved. they were last seen playing basketball and then the boys apparently then when for a swim and were overcome by the currents. >> i can't believe -- because he is afraid of water. it is a tragedy. -- >> and they need to do something. so this does not happen again. some other child has to drown. >> neighbors say the creek is deceptively dangerous. rescue crews found the boy's body is just that. today we are going to get a look at marilyn's plans for restoring the chesapeake bay. the annual meeting of the chesapeake bay program executive

council is expected to produce an update on how six states and the district are doing in efforts to bring back the day after years of neglect. the cleanup is one of the biggest water producer -- pollution projects in u.s. history. a debate over a proposed costco gas station for today's montgomery county council meeting. it would have 16 palms and will largest accounting, built at the westfield wheaton shopping center right near a swimming and tennis club and a school for special needs students. opponents are worried about environmental and health risks but costco says those fears are unfounded. >> the pat -- the taliban is claiming responsibility for a roadside bombing that killed six american service members in afghanistan. the soldiers died when iran over the bomb sunday south of kabul. hundreds of landscape and long care per fourth -- professionals across the country will be at

arlington national cemetery to take part in the annual volunteer day of service. they will spend a day mulching, pruning, and planting to keep the cemetery's 600 acres in tiptop shape and it also includes a children's project. hopefully they will have a good day out there. >> it is cooling off and we need the rain. it has been getting a little crunchy outside. i like g. >> i like the way you use the word. >> a bit of a cost with severe storms yesterday. the very unsettled weather pattern will give us daily shower and storm chances the rest of this week. so, more shots at beneficial rain all week and upcoming weekend. let's look at live super doppler -- the live view shows the heaviest rain which we have over night of the eastern shore

and over the atlantic. but also heavy downpours especially around frederick and moving into mount berry, of the 70 corridor, clipping parts of damascus and especially mount airy. light rain montgomery county, moderate showers in parts of the panhandle and west virginia and even parts of the shenandoah valley just north of winchester, some moderate rain pushing eastward right along 50. southern maryland, waldorf, one little downpour -- crossing over 5 and 301. a little right rate -- light rain about fairfax county but basically all the roadways are damp, even if we do not have the ongoing showers at this time. the back edge of the morning rain -- we will see this come to an end the next couple of hours and then a few sunny breaks especially by nec -- lunchtime and after that, if you were storms possible this afternoon

and evening. unsettled weather pattern but a period of showers and storms not just in the typical late afternoon and evening hours. and this goes for the rest of the week. 75 in washington, said in a martinsburg and 70 in cumberland -- a little cooler in the north. also a little less humid. 87 is a high temperature. here is a good break down for the experts forecast. by lunchtime about 30% chance. 5:00 p.m., 40% chance. mainly south of washington. culpeper fredericksburg, stafford even seventh of care county and for -- across the potomac their seven maryland. some of them unfortunately could be strong or severe this afternoon and evening. mainly south of washington barry and john washington. those are the storm chances the rest of the week. increased chance friday and saturday because a lot more dynamics those fans. but cannot rule out tuesday wednesday, thursday.

but after walker -- record- breaking highs of the weekend we are down and 80's. refreshing air, action a few days below average. the retreat came down george washington parkway during the storm does -- >> a tree came down george washington parkway during the storm, traffic test exit at the memorial bridge. the tree is down near spout run. they are out there with chain saws. 95 southbound, somebody hit a light pole and the light pole is down on the interstate. southbound of a truck weighing station but traffic is getting through. on the baltimore washington parkway, a collision just reported southbound near 410 inside the beltway. if you take metro rail, they are reporting normal service system- wide. we are running back to news now. >> thank you. the auto industry targets a specific group of guys. >> sales going well for the "50

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years ago the girl fractured her school and suffered traumatic juror -- a traumatic brain injury after falling kicking a soccer ball as a baby. mousy -- she and her sister and making and selling save hair bows. they are doing it by themselves. pretty an uprising. >> think about the things we were and are here growing up. this could easily happen. this is a freak accident. but they raised a lot of money and now they are thinking about what charities to give it to. >> not keeping the money for themselves but helping somebody. >> the said they still suffer from memory loss and adhd from the injury. we want to share with you, in new york man, 1966 volvo -- bought it in 1966. >> still running. >> even after breaking the 2 million mile mark. along by a retired school teacher.

he actually bought the car for 415025 years ago and now in the guinness book for high mileage vehicles. he said he wants to get to 3 million miles. >> and he is going to come in the next year. he only has 30,000 miles to go. i need is a mechanic. >> volvo needs to get this guy for a commercial. >> he needs his own television show. i want to know how i can milk 3 million miles of my car. >> and he probably has a lot of money in the savings account -- still driving the same car from 1966. >> we still have another half hour of "good morning washington." >> fairfax police are forced to return fire in an early morning shooting after they say a suspect started shooting at

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>> straight ahead -- people in virginia got quite a scare after a quick moving storm on sunday. >> we will give you a look at all the damage down there. and we have a live report coming up in just a bit. it is monday, july night. i'm natasha barrett. steve that the morning off. >> and cynne simpson. glad you are joining us. we will start with traffic and weather -- first, a meteorologist adam caskey. along with the rain lender? >> all week long we will have often on showers and thunderstorms. some days more rain than other days. but we have a daily chance for at least a little bit of rain and a few thunderstorms here and there but a majority of the showers came overnight. even this morning, steady rain. especially frederick county, virginia. moderate to heavy rain, pushing

eastward. moderate rain along 270 and pushing eastward also into the 70 court in howard county. we had light rain overnight as well so damp road even where you did not have ongoing showers. in the 70's and on the way to 87. four days in a row at or above 100 degrees. facts in the 80's this week. doug hill will be back to talk about the storm chances in a little bit. >> i am going to talk about the george washington parkway which i have been this entire program because of a tree that came down earlier this morning. over an hour they have been working to cut it up. northbound spout run -- traffic has to be tore at the memorial bridge. if we look at the cameras 270 earlier, there was road spray and raining -- now it looks much better. stick around for adam caskey and doug hill with more on the weather because it affects the traffic. now we go to news.

>> thanks, lisa. fairfax police continue to investigate following a deadly officer-involved shooting overnight. jummy olabanji of our lives in mount vernon joining us with the details of what happened. >> according to fairfax county police, it was just before 11:30 p.m. last night when two of the officers were in this area and say they noticed two men who were acting suspiciously. we are told the officers approached of the two men and that some of the during the conversation one of the men ran away. the two officers began chasing the suspect and that some point there was an altercation in and police say the suspect pulled out a handgun and began firing shots at police. police spokesman said officers then fired back and one of the officers struck the victim. he was taken to mount vernon hospital where he died a short time later. police say they are still looking for the second suspect. >> if anybody has the situation

on the incident itself or the second suspect call either crime solvers of the police non- emergency number. >> police are out here investigating, -- all waiting to collect additional pieces of evidence. so far they have not release the identity of the suspect was killed but they do say officers involved in the shooting were not injured. >> just after the power came back on from last week that a derecho, another storm came in and knocked out power and caused more damage. brianne carter is live from one of the areas hardest hit fredericksburg. >> adjust heat near rte. 1 in fredericksburg -- just near route 1 in fredericksburg.

>> we are having trouble with the audio and will get back. he's down 50 is back, good news for commuters. >> it was closed in the bowie area because of heat-related road buckling. the rains were expected to remain closed through rush-hour but the crews were able to get them sooner than expected. troubling news for measure commuters to use the green line. both tracks are back in service, meaning you can expect a normal commute. metro officials believe the heat caused friday afternoon that a partial derailment in prince george's county. they repaired 1,000 feet of damaged crack -- track near the west-built station. >> firefighters are looking for the cause of a house fire that

happened last night. crews were forced to evacuate the home on marjorie dried in largo after flames engulfed the house. no one was hurt but the home received a significant amount of damage. >> investigators trying to determine what caused enough -- a fire that gutted an apartment building in laurel. dozens are displaced. the fire broke out at the country meadows apartment on tiger lily pads. firefighters said the flames started on the third floor and then quickly spread. luckily, everybody made it out safely. 72 degrees outside. still ahead on good morning washington," a new hampshire man sings his way into the record books. >> what inspired him to sing the national [ crows cawing ] [ male

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weather every 10 minutes -- and for that, doug hill. >> doing well here. and the storms in the metro area pretty much gone for the moment. more rain to come. let's start out with a look at live super doppler radar as the rain continues to move from ref the west to east. -- moving from west to east. let's talk about this rain, we have incredible polls last night. this is just a sense midnight, at this elementary school in frederick, 3.1 inches -- even nor the montgomery county, clarksburg, with more today. low to mid 70's in most spots 75 to start the day of the nation's capital. we see areas of rain will be in the 70's through the morning. up above the 80 degree mark. a little bit of sunshine at times but then an increased chance about 40%, of afternoon

and evening showers and thunderstorms and pretty much that is the story this week. if anything, thunderstorm chances will go up having to friday and the weekend. we were 100 degrees, 100-plus -- now we have six or seven days in a row with the below average temperatures and a chance of rain each day. crazy. let's find out how the folks are out there monday morning. are they crazy? >> not crazy -- northbound george washington parkway the tree down at spout run, but the tree cut up -- live, a picture of the traffic to get across the roosevelt bridge. meandering its way across the bridge. the wet pavement looks good. good on 110 and good at washington boulevard. and quite a 395 between washington boulevard and the 14th street bridge. >> speaking of traffic, a lot of

people go on road trips to visit family or perhaps friends. >> but one woman as on the road this summer with a mission to meet

>> twitter and lets us they plug into our favorite topics and interest and even personally connect with the favorite celebrities. a los angeles woman set out on a cross-country journey to meet some of her own followers face to face, and she is getting it all on film. erin falk gives us an update on the progress of her real life documentary. in a tweet, 140 characters, 140 characters in the documentary as well who are your twitter

followers. this is day 14 for you. >> it is going really well. busy but going well. >> you reached out to some of your twitter followers and invited them to be characters in your documentary. what exactly is it you are looking to learn? >> i think i really want to see you being difference between real life and the internet in terms of making connections. for me, i feel a connection to these people, i feel like they are my friends. i trust them to recommend all sorts of things to me -- books music, food, all sorts of things. they answer questions, discuss politics. i know them better than i know most of my neighbors on my apartment complex. is there a line anymore between real-life and the internet? >> existing putting a face to the twitter handbook. have there been some surprises? peabody and expected to be one way but really very different? >> not as many as i thought. i thought i would go into it and

would think, totally different than i expected. but it is a pleasant surprise that people agenda when. that they really are who they say they are. you have the crazy people who are not. but for the most part we are all just on their trying to talk and get to know each other and nobody is hiding. >> interesting -- and congratulations -- corey booker agreed to be part of the documentary. you will have to new jersey. what questions will have for him? >> it happened really quickly and i did not have any questions yet for him. i want to talk to him about the way he uses twitter to cut out the red tape. when he is on there, somebody says there is a big tree that fell down in my backyard and i did not know who to call, he immediately responds and says, direct message to me your phone number and i will have someone call you to take care of it. i think that is a great use of

twitter bang -- twitters of connecting the government to people. >> the mayor of new york using an usingewark using it. the my personal twitter account is erinscafe, and i like to tell people that it is the g-13 -- pg-13 and if you want to follow the film ss_the filem. >> thank you so much for stopping by. >> time now for your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. for that, back over to doug hill. >> my pleasure. let's talk about the rain. we have rain around the area. a chance of rain every day this week and even this upcoming weekend. rather dramatic pattern change has occurred with the movement

of the cold front. let's take a look at washington lehigh school in arlington and let's do the kind of layers of clouds. this is pretty much what the stock looked like earlier this morning. a little rain moving through. 7 frederick county, over two inches of rain -- southern for accounting. the farther away from washington, the more rain. all the rain on the eastern shore. still some elements of moderate showers in areas just north of the city. everything moving from left to right, that is west to east. orange and red showing the heavier showers. winchester coming coming down to the piedmont. more of this as we head through the day today. as far as what is happening on the satellite, a stationary front, cold front that came through. as long as you are in the shadow of the cold front, northward in little bit, you will see a daily

chance of showers and thunderstorms with war clouds and sun each day but the key is, the lack of abundant sunshine will keep temperatures under control and 80's all week long. 74 at washington dulles 75 in the city and it will climb today into the 80's with more showers this afternoon. that is the latest update. hello, lisa baden. >> good morning everyone. talk about the george washington parkway reopened northbound -- a tree came down at the 5:00 hour and spout run and that guy with a chain saw it in his magic and everything is moving, although slowly. everything status quo -- 66 95, normal volume of traffic. we will take you live to the geico track center picture -- the road spray. 95 out of knowing tin to get into springfield.

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>> mitt romney's finances are at the heart of the political talk shows. but some believe he could be worth a minimum of $250 million. white house chief correspondent for politico is here with more. 250 , low and but he could be worth a billion dollars, you are saying? >> had been monday. we did not know exactly how much he is worth the democrats will try to make a big issue. we will see it started today in the rose garden when the president talks about extending tax cut for everyone making $250,000 or less. the president is going to continue that message in his campaign this week. fedor today and saturday, battleground virginia. we will see the president a lot of around here. all the big markets in the state at the end of the month. a step up here in northern virginia, something in eric cantor's home district and

then hampton, virginia beach run up. >> romney's money -- we have seen it before with the democrats tried to expose his riches and released this and that, we want to see the tax return. do we think va will be able to hold off year? >> where this will start to have power is if people start heat is hiding something. we heard people from the white house campaign talking about mitt romney is secretive, a code word to give people the feeling there is something about him they can't really trust. the romney team is trying to say, look, i was a successful business person and that is what the country needs. he is going back and forth. a lot of people around romney saleh embrace it, i can do for the country what i did for myself a lot of people don't realize he would be the richest president -- >> a lot of people do not

realize. he would be the richest president ever. a lot of the founding fathers were stinking rich at the time but in my lifetime, he certainly would be by far the wealthiest. >> moremore than jfk. >> we will see what the numbers are and how the public reacts to that. appreciate your insight. >> have a great week. >> checking our top stories -- a suspect is dead after a shootout with police in number and in. fairfax county police say they noticed two men acting suspiciously along madge lane near frye road and the approach them one man pulled out a gun and fired and another man read it -- ran away. >> family and business owners are cleaning up after yesterday's severe storms. one of the hardest hit are stafford and washington counties. in fredericksburg the storm ripped the roof of a dance studio.

>> investigators trying to figure out who shot a teenager in southeast d.c. it happened early this morning. the 17-year-old was shot in the leg, side, and back. he was taken to hospital and we are hearing he is expected to be ok. >> soon you are going to be able to satisfy your late-night craving for sweet. >> i like this. "the washington post" is reporting that sprinkles in the georgetown will officially flip the switch in august on a 24- hour cupcake atm. as you can see you can use a touch screen and customers can scroll through the cupcake menu make a selection and pay with a credit card. the cupcake is dispensed -- boxed and spent. they will cost about $4. >> the 24-hour sugar fix. let's get a quick last look at traffic and weather every 10 minutes.

lisa? >> we will get our fix of what is happening by going live to the traffic center picture. pretty good shape, 95 that university boulevard looking good across the american legion bridge and the george washington parkway is open and spout run where a tree had come down earlier. take it away, adam caskey. >> damp outside. we have more on going showers. a good thing -- it has been getting very crunchy around here. degrasse turning brown. patches all over the area. we need the rain, so we are getting it. unfortunately it came at a bit of a cost of severe storms. but daily shower and storm chances all week long. an unsettled weather pattern. i think the best chance is out the washington the next couple of days, but friday and saturday we could see a little more widespread action. in the 80's all week long with a record-breaking highs in the weekend, four days in a row at

or above 100 degrees at reagan national and now we are dropping down to below average because of a frontal boundary creeping southward early this morning and it should just stall to the south later this week. there is a look at live super doppler, moderate rain -- around the beltway, some areas of light rain into southern maryland. this will come to an end later this midday, this money to lunchtime. a few sunny breaks and then a few showers and storms especially south of the bout with letter on this afternoon and evening. we could see a little more later on today. it is unsettled. >> that is fine with me. this is one morning when i woke up and had to get the umbrella out and look happy about it because we are cooling off. >> and we need it. >> as long as we are not going to see more thunderstorms were trees are coming down and there are power outages. >>

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